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Published in final edited form as: J Marriage Fam. 1993 Nov;55(4):953–963.

Table 3.

Correlations Among Number of Sexually Active Girlfriends and Sisters and Girls’ Sexual Status

	Number of Sexually Active
Sexual Status^a	Girlfriends	Sisters	Sisters^b
Total (n = 455)	.33^***	.25^***	.27^***
Hispanic (n = 137)	.23^**	.13	.16
Black (n = 132)	.27^**	.18	.20
White (n = 73)	.23^*	.16	.20
Asian (n = 46)	.48^***	.29^*	.29^*

^a

Coded such that 0 = virgin and 1 = nonvirgin.

^b

Partial correlations controlling for subjects’ age, race (when computed for the total sample), and number of sisters in the family.

^*

p < .05.

^**

p < .01.

^***

p < .001.